First POS - Inventory Management System
A point-of-sale and inventory system where the till and the stock room hold the same numbers.
Project Information
- Category :
- Digital product
- Services :
- Product design, Platform engineering
- Year :
- 2025
Project Challenges
Selling and stock-keeping are usually two systems that disagree, and reconciling them is somebody's evening.
A counter is an unforgiving place to put software.
- One source of stock – Every sale, return and delivery has to move the same number, or the count drifts within a week.
- Counter speed – A queue does not wait for a form, so the sale path has to be the fastest thing in the product.
- Offline reality – Connections drop mid-transaction, and the till still has to work.
What we built
We made the sale and the stock movement the same event, so inventory is a consequence of trading rather than a separate task someone has to remember.
- Type
- Point of sale
- Built
- Sales, inventory, stock movements
- Model
- One record for the sale and the stock
Project Summary
First POS runs sales and inventory off one record, so stock reflects trading without a separate count.
A point-of-sale and inventory system where the till and the stock room hold the same numbers.